Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1887-03-10
SCHOOLS ON THE pBxIysv11.
what state super inttndont Williams
says Upon school Matters Down
the State.

Wh1tstato super inttndont williams
Nays upon school Matters Down
the State.
State Superintendent Williams has inst
returned from Delmar. Ia that town a
new sehool structure has just been erected
70 accommodate 100 pupils. Mr.. Willisms
spent day investigating educational
matters In the town. He reports well Of
the Delmar school.
The results of the New Castle and sus-
sex county teachers examinations have
been asoertained out Of 80 applicants for
teRchers' certificates about rs passed. The
superintendent states that the general
standing of the teachers Ia superior to
that OF last year. There we're several ap-
plicants for certificates who passed a sue
oessful examination In scholastic REQUIRE
ments, but as the young ladies were but
II years of age Mr.. Williams had to with
hold their certificates as the State law
does not permit their being granted to
any person under IS years.
The State superintendent talks very
emphatically upon the needs Of State
Normal School In Delaware where those
who aspire to the profession OF pedagogy
may receive technical education In tie
theory and art of teaching, which is an
element entirely distinct from scholastic
proficiency. Mr.. Williams hopes that
the Legislature will take some substantial
action In the matter. He, with others,
will appear before the Legislative com
mittee on education in regard to the mat.
ter. Mr.. Williams says that no State il
occasionally alive that is without O
school to teach teachers, that 10 to say, q
normal school.
In regard TO the Smalley Normal
School bill, introduced into the Legisla-
ture, although 1t is one that in it's way
purposes to aid education in Delaware, Il
hardly goes far enough. What Ia needed
Is an out and out normal school properly
and completely established in all its de-
partments with no a&znities but direct
State control, dependent upon no oontin
| gencies, with no other aftinities or pur
poses than to qualify teachers for educa
tional purposes in this State. II SHOULD
be established upon the now we'll under
stood principles existing in prominent
educational centres Of the country.
Mr.. Williams thinks the time has or
rived for Delaware to demand more thar
Il hHhA haeNouAon Va bVhhpAthhAntbt AilS puu
cational question, he considers, is to,
important a one for any other treatment
1t ia also intended to make suggestion,
to the Legislative educational committe
in regard TO larger appropriations for in
stitute purposes in conformity with th
resolutions passed by the New oastl
county teachers at their meeting in vii
mington at the close Of the recent insti
tute here. The need is 20 make aom
arrangement to afford the teachers of th
State some aid in the expense they ar
put TO in living and travelling expense
while attending the Institutes In the dii
ferent counties, and also to ask for
sufficient sum in order that th
institutes may extend over term of
full week at least, as no real adyantae
can be gained by the teachers nc
thorough work performed by the institui
leaders in o two-days meeting. By IL
time the leaders and the teachers hay
become interested in their work and CON
10 know one another's methods and idei
ii is time to break up the institute and 9
home. The State superintendent's al
nual educational report has been handle
in to the legislative committee at Dove
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